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Resources for Teachers and Parents

Television in the Classroom

  • Kids Net - This is an excellent site for parents, teachers, and children to find quality shows on television. You can search for TV shows by age, subject, rating, network, and other criteria. Information is also given on taping rights.
  • PBS Teacher Source - Schedules, over 1000 lesson plans, and other guides to using PBS in the classroom.
  • New Hampshire Public Television - Lots of great resources from NHPTV Knowledge Network.
  • Cable in the Classroom - Efforts to use cable content and new technologies to improve teaching and learning for children in schools, at home, and in their communities.
  • Turner Learning - Using CNN in the classroom.
  • CNNfyi - Excellent news web site for middle and high school students. There are also teacher pages to help with using current events in the classroom.
  • The Discovery Channel
  • The History Channel Classroom - Lesson plans from the History Channel.